Planet of the Apes (1968);
"Suspense: Nightmare at Ground Zero" (CBS, 8/18/53)

September 9, 2012 - 7:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

Time-traveling astronaut Charlton Heston crashes on an unknown planet two millennia in the future and finds himself in a world run by highly-advanced apes who treat humans as beasts and slaves. Offering a bracing look in the mirror, the iconic adventure film is vintage Serling: transplanting social concerns onto a fantastic future world.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs. Screenwriter: Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, from the novel "La planete des singes" by Pierre Boulle. Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy. Editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore.

35mm, color, 112 min.

Print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the Academy Film Archive

Trailer for The Yellow Canary (1963)

35mm, b/w, approx. 3 min.

"Suspense: Nightmare at Ground Zero" (CBS, 8/18/53)

Directed by Robert Mulligan

In this eerily atmospheric live television drama directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), a henpecked artist hired by the U.S. Army to supply mannequins for an atomic test plots a horrific solution to dispose of his nagging wife.

Screenwriter: Rod Serling. Cast: O.Z. Whitehead, Louise Larabee, Calvin Thomas.

Beta SP, b/w, 30 min.

Part of:

"Rod Serling: Other Dimensions"

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Planet of the Apes (1968); "Suspense: Nightmare at Ground Zero" (CBS, 8/18/53)